Frequency-Domain High-Speed Bus Signal Integrity Compliance Model

1. A method for channel compliance testing, comprising: identifying at least one design criteria; obtaining boundary sets of frequency domain parameters for compliant signal channels known to achieve the design criteria; and verifying whether a particular signal channel is compliant by comparing values of frequency domain parameters for the particular channel to one or more of the boundary sets of frequency domain parameters for the known compliant channels, wherein the signal channel is part of a communication bus and the boundary sets of frequency domain parameters comprise at least one parameter related to insertion loss and at least one parameter related to a crosstalk ratio at a fundamental frequency of the bus.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising deriving the frequency domain parameters for the particular channel from S-parameters indicative of a frequency response of the particular channel.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the design criteria comprises a desired bit error rate for a particular set of bus transmitter and receiver properties.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the boundary sets using a genetic algorithm.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the particular signal channel is used for communication between a first and second components and the boundary sets are determined for at least one known property of the first and second components.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the verifying comprises: determining whether the particular signal channel is compliant based on a comparison of the frequency domain parameters for the particular channel to frequency domain parameters of a first boundary set; and if not, determining whether the particular signal channel is compliant based on a comparison of the frequency domain parameters for the particular channel to frequency domain parameters of a second boundary set.